DeepCwind-ers Do you know them?
Maine DeepCwind Deepwater Offshore Wind Consortium Members.
Source Bangor Daily News
Universities, government and nonprofit agencies
University of Maine - AEWC Advanced Structures & Composites Center (Lead)
University of New Hampshire
Maine Maritime Academy
Northern Maine Community College
University of Western Australia
U.S. Department of Energy
Governor’s Office of Energy Independence & Security
Maine Department of Economic and Community Development
Maine Department of Environmental Protection
Ocean Energy Institute
New Jersey Audubon Society
Island Institute
Gulf of Maine Research Institute
Siting, design and fabrication operations
Cianbro Corp.
Bath Iron Works
Bernstein Shur Counselors at Law
James W. Sewall Co.
Kleinschmidt Associates
Technip USA
McNiff Light Industry
Santos Wind Energy Technology (SWEeT)
Principle Power Inc.
Bangor-Hydro Electric Co.
American Superconductor
Northern Power Systems
Clean Energy Design
Composites Materials Industry
Ashland Inc.
Kenway Corp.
Harbor Technologies
PPG Industries
Owens Corning
Zoltek
Polystrand Inc.
Industry partners, organizations and manufacturing automation
MAG International
Maine Composites Alliance
Simmons & Company International
American Composites Manufacturers Association
Maine Wind Energy Initiative
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Comment by Art Brigades on February 22, 2010 at 7:59pm
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My bad. I didn't know Monhegan would be affected. It was my understanding that the plan is to put floating turbines 20 miles out, where their many impacts are mitigated. I have been so focused on the present onslaught I have not paid as much attention to the offshore pipedream. When I see figures like 25 and 30 cents per kwh I lose urgency more. Why build something nobody needs or will buy? Not dividing, just focusing on today's threat.
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Comment by Dan McKay on February 22, 2010 at 6:34pm
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Why ruin anything for something you don't need ?
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Comment by Joanne Moore on February 22, 2010 at 6:24pm
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I joined the citizens' task force because I thought we were all in this together. Land, ocean or skies, it doesn't matter. Everything is connected and we must protect those who are under attack wherever they are or whatever they are. The islanders as well as the inlanders. The fish and fowl of the seas as well as the wildlife on land and the birds who soar over us. They are all our brothers. The beautiful vistas of the hills and mountains as well as the majesty and mystery of our oceans must be spared from further environmental degradation. And the people who live on land or make their living on the waters must have their way of life protected.
Monhegan is a sacred spot. To walk the trails there is to be close to God. Have you ever seen and walked the Cathedral Pines? The inspiration that it has given to so many artists such as the Wyeth family cannot be measured in human terms. It is a priceless treasure.
Let's all stick together. Big Wind would like nothing better than to divide us.
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The day the business and homeowner (ratepayer) population sits back and allows the government to issue a de facto mandate for a more expensive product than what is currently available is the day...hmmmm...let me think about this... E-10 gasoline... mandate-laden health insurance... brand name prescriptions...
You're making me feel sick here.
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Comment by Long Islander on February 22, 2010 at 4:47pm
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They will mandate that a higher percentage of renewable energy be bought, and since they will arbitrarily exclude hydro from this, it'll allow ocean wind to sell to us. Also, don't get lulled into thinking that if we let them have the ocean, they'll leave us alone on the land.
Appeasement never works and they'll just get stronger with the salt water subsidies and they'll return to inland with a vengeance.
Besides, I'm opposed to wind not just on the basis of human health effects but also on the economics that will run this country aground. That happens on land or sea. And don't overlook the marine ecosystem. We know nothing of the effects, but that won't stop this cabal of elitist subsidy thieves who have been planning this probably since the 90's, under the cover of saving the planet.
And the transmission lines they use for ocean might be the same lines that will allow them to build inland complexes.
Google "Bloom Box". (and perhaps then click "News"). That's the kind of place you can put these subsidies.
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Comment by Ron Huber on February 22, 2010 at 4:18pm
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Where there's a subsidy, there's a way. The windies have been working various state and federal governments like mad, trying to round up public funding. They'll build those offshore mills if it takes the last taxpayer dollar to do it!
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Am I really worried about deep sea wind projects? Or tidal generating? Help me out, here. I'm not being flippant. By the time they reach the capability to produce a marketable (probably never competitively priced) electric product, will there even be a demand for it? With all this good clean, reliable, dispatchable electricity in abundance from existing sources like natural gas and Hydro Quebec, what is the likelihood any of us will ever plug into a windmill for anything? Even if there someday is a demand for ocean wind electricity, is it a detrimental generation method? My focus is on protecting that which is irreplaceable, that which is now threatened... The land. I'm with you if you can convince me otherwise :-) Artie B
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Hmmmm - Simmons & Company International run by the same Matthew R. Simmons who established the Ocean Energy Institute whose one (of many) goals is to be a bully pulpit to expound the benefits and help clear "obstacles" to make ocean energy a reality.
The Ocean Energy Institute whose chairman emeritus is Matthew R. Simmons and whose membership includes Habib J. Dagher, Phillip Conkling (president of the Island Institute) and Robert A. Kennedy, president of U of M.
Google "The Simmons Plan". It scares the begeebus out of me.
Maine as Third World Country:
CMP Transmission Rate Skyrockets 19.6% Due to Wind Power
Click here to read how the Maine ratepayer has been sold down the river by the Angus King cabal.
Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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